NanoSeal

Barrier coating for PLA

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• NanoSeal™ is the best performing, environmentally friendly alternative to creating barrier on PLA films. The environmental benefits of NanoSeal™ are also enhanced by economics: less material is used to achieve better barrier than polyvinylidene chloride (PVdC), ethylene vinyl alcohol (EVOH) and polyvinyl alcohol (PVOH). And, the elimination of chlorine-bearing PVdC reduces processing and disposal concerns.

• NanoSeal coatings address a number of environmental concerns commonly associated with barrier materials. First, they enable significantly better gas barrier than alternatives while using 60-95% less material (reducing the
  NanoSeal™ White Paper rev. April 2010, page 4
  amount of packaging material is the US EPA's top objective in addressing landfill issues). Second, NanoSeal coatings displace PVdC, which contains free chlorine, which has been increasingly targeted for elimination because of its processing and disposal hazards. Third, scrap packaging coated with NanoSeal coatings can be re-ground and blended into virgin resin for re-use, unlike some barrier materials. And finally, NanoSeal coatings dissolve in landfills, and do not inhibit the bio-degradability of compostable packaging.
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